Cigarette container



April 14, 1925.

F. R. HEYGEL CIGARETTE CONTAINER Filed Nov. g-g" Patented Apr. 14, 1925.

UNITED STATES 1,533,413 PATENT orFicE.

PAUL R. 'HEYGL OF MOBSEMERE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO HARRY E. STRAUS,

' OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CIGBETTE CONTAINER.

Application led November 28, 1923. Serial No. 677,356.

To all 'whom it may cof/wem:

Be it known that I, APAUL ROBERT Herein., a citizen of the Republic of Germany, residing at Morsemere, county of Bergen, State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigarette Containers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to containers for packaged cigarettes.

A11 object'of the invention is to provide a container for cigarettes contained in wrappers or other original forms of package of paper or other relatively pliable material, whereby the packaged cigarettes when inserted inthe container are protected against injury and presented for ready removal of the cigarettes.

A rther object of the invention is to provide a container so arranged relative to the wrapper whereby an opening in a corner or other rtion of the wrapper may be readily torn y coaction with the edge or other part of the container to form an open'- ing for removal of the cigarettes.

Further features and objects of the invention will be more fully understood from the, following detail description and the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a top perspective view showing an embodiment o the invention and illustrating a manner of tearing a corner openingFin the cigarette package;

ig. 2 is a top erspective view of the coni tainer per se as s own 1n Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation on line 3-3 of Fig. 1; and

Fi 4 is a top perspective view of a modified orm of container and showing a pa'ckage from which some of the cigarettes have been removed.

Referring to the drawings, the container 10 may be formed of imperforate sides 11,

12 and ends 13, 14 and have an imperforate.

bottom 15, but: which may be varied as desired. The'top of the container 10 is open or provided with an. opening for receiving a pouch or other packages 16 of cigarettes 17- The inner dimensions ofthe sides y11,

' 12, ends. 13, 14, are preferably such as to snu receive and frictionally retain the pac e16 of cigarettes.

At t e upper edge of the container 10 is provided suitable means for facilitating the removal of a portion of the wrapper of the cigarette package 16, and preferably to form a corner opening 18. see ig. 1. As one such arrangement. the upper edge of the side 11 is depressed as is indicated at 19. as of a curved formation, and the upper edge of the end 13 depressed as indicated at 20 as in a. similarly curved manner, whereby the joint edges 19. 20 form an effectual cutting edge and a guide for tearing away the corner portion 21, see Fig. 1, as by manual grasping the paper of the wrapper 16, say with the right hand, as indicated at 22, and tearing the paper with the left hand as indicated at 23. The forming of such opening 18 may be started by grasping say wit the left hand the revenue stamp usually applied over the fold of the paper at the top of the package or pouch 16 and continning the tear of the paper as aforesaid. The outline of the corner opening 18 in the wrapper 16 is clean. and thus afords unobstructed-removal of cigarettes at all times and obtains neatness in appearance.

By such provision of means, a corner opening is readily formed when the package 16 of cigarettes is enclosed in the container 10, and the cigarette wrapper is preserved substantially in its original condition.

The container may be made of im rforate material, such as cardboard, reboard or superposed layers of paper stock such as chipboard with appropriate exterior finishing l1ners,'or may be made of trans lucent or transparent or. semi-trans arent material, of molded or other shaped c aracter such as compositions, metals and the like.

If desired, an opening 24, see Fig. 4, may be in a side, say the side 11, to permit the markings on theA cigarette package 161:0 be visible when the pac age is enclosed in the container, or one or more additional sides may be provided with transparent or other so-called window material for like purpose as the opening 24.

After a corner opening has been formed in the original package 16, as described hereinabove, the container 10 protects the cigarettes from external ressure such as when the container with t e cigarette package is placed in a garment pocket or in a valise or the like. -The remaining cigarettes, see see Fig. 4, are preserved from crushing and eectually held from undue shaking. It will be noted, as is indicated 'm Fig. 4, that the original form of the cigarette package 16 is preserved by the container 10 notwithstanding that a port-ion of the wrapper has been torn away and a number of the cigarettes removed.

creas' I have described my invention with reference to specic forms thereof, it will be understood that many changes and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

I claim..

1. A container for original cigarette packages formed of relatively yielding material, said container comprising side, end and bottom portions of relatively sti" material, the top of said container being open and formed at one corner of the top with a depressed edge rtion, said edge ortion conforming to andoserving as a guide for severing the desired opening to be formed in the package Wrap era 2., container for paper Wrapped packages of cigarettes, said container comprising Leeaeia serving as a guide for severing the paper of the cigarette package.

3. A container for original cigarette pack-- ages formed of non-self-sustalnm material, said container comprising side an end portions of selfsusta1ning material, said container being provided with an openin for receiving such package, the edge o the opening of said container at one corner being curved transversely to the adjacent portions of the edge to serve as a guide for severing the material of the original package to form the desired opening therein.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification this .26th day of November, 1923.

PAUL R, HEYGEL.1 

